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Early breakfast now served at Olson ’19 trains service Wilson College on weekends dog on campus

By Betty Liu staff writer

Last week, Wilson College dining hall opened for breakfast – early. It was not brunch, and it was early enough for students with morning commitments to fill their bellies beforehand. At 7:30 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, Wilson College is now open for breakfast.

Currently, Wilson College dining hall is the only dining hall that is open for breakfast on weekends, as other dining halls on campus do not begin operations until 10 a.m.

Brunch hours for Wilson College have not changed and re-

main from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The new breakfast hours are one of the many changes implemented by the Princeton University Board Plan Review Committee, according to Smitha Haneef, Executive Director of Campus Dining and co-chair of the committee.

“This recommendation came from focus group discussions that took place last year,” said Oliver Avens, Dean of Rockefeller College and cochair of the committee. “It was a broad sector of students who felt they would benefit from having an earlier breakfast opportunity on the weekends.”

There were a number of fo-

cus groups, Avens remarks.

Many were open focus groups that were advertised on Campus Dining’s website and the residential college offices.

Others were selected based on class year or activities.

Avens cites students who had to get up early for work, student-athletes, among others as some of the beneficiaries of this change.

As for why Wilson College dining hall was the one chosen to host breakfast, Haneef said, “We evaluated all of our dining halls, and proximity and location were a driving factor.” She noted that Wilson College dining hall was the See BREAKFAST page 2

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Law school to begin accepting GRE

By Jeff Zymeri senior writer

By Allie Spensley senior writer

Camden Olson ’19 never had a pet dog growing up, but a story she read in the seventh grade sparked an interest in training service dogs. That passion has shaped her experiences ever since: from training neighborhood dogs in her hometown of Chicago, to spending a gap year at a guide dog school in Maine, to basing her senior thesis on Koa, a miniature golden retriever Olson is training to be a diabetic alert dog.

“Since I wasn’t allowed to have a dog, I would do everything that I could to train and work with dogs – I’d watch TV shows, read books about it, I did an independent study in high school and worked with the neighbors’ dog, anything I could,” she explained.

After graduating high school, Olson wanted to delve deeper into the world of service dog training. Her grandmother, who had encouraged Olson to get involved with dog training, lived in Maine, and Olson moved there for a year to begin training a guide dog. She also worked in a dental clinic, helped teach obedience classes, and taught dog safety in schools. At the end of the year, the guide dog that she trained was successfully placed with a new owner in California.

Olson spent a year and a half in an extended approval process that ultimately allowed her to train a service dog while at school. Koa will be a diabetic alert dog, trained to paw at his owner when he smells that their blood sugar is too high or too low. Olson began working with him early in the summer, when he was just eight weeks old. She used saliva samples to help him develop the ability to determine whether a person’s blood sugar levels are out of balance. By the time he was three and a half months old, Koa was able to “live alert” – to paw at Olson when her blood sugar was lower than usual.

At the end of the summer, Olson moved Koa into her University dorm room. She has continued his training on campus ever since, and hopes to place him with a Type 1 diabetic at the end of the school year.

“I love having Koa in the room – it’s like always having a puppy study break!” Madeleine Cheyette ’19, Olson’s roommate, said. “Camden is really, really great at training him. You can

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tell that this is something she’s so passionate about. I’m really happy this work was approved for her.”

Olson said that the experience of training a service dog has helped her become more aware of her day-to-day emotions.

“Everything is about feeding off of my energy. I have to really be ‘on’ all the time, I have to be in the moment, monitoring my emotions,” Olson said. “I’ll often find that Koa’s behavior is representative of how I’m feeling. If he is kind of blowing me off, pulling on the leash all the time, I find it’s usually because I’m stressed about something. If I take a moment to collect myself and take a deep breath, he’ll walk safely.”

“You have to be really, really patient all the time,” she added.

“Sometimes it’s hard, especially because I’m the only one taking care of him right now.”

Olson is incorporating her work with Koa into her senior thesis in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

Her research on guide dog training is done, in part, by tracking Koa’s alerting behavior, and will also help middle school students learn to train service dogs.

“I designed an after-school program that teaches middle school students how to train service dogs, so I’m going to teach it and use Koa and see how it affects the students’ academic and socio-emotional markers,” Olson said.

After graduation, Olson plans to continue researching canine cognition and ways to the improve the efficiency of service dog training.

“The dog training field is not very unified; there are a lot of different mentalities and ways of approaching things. If you asked two different dog trainers for an opinion, they’d probably give you two different answers,” Olson said. “I want to get more research behind which methods work and which don’t, because there’s really not that much information.”

Olson explained that the process of training a service dog is far different than having a pet: there’s a purpose behind the experience that makes placing the dog with a new owner meaningful rather than sad.

“It’s something I’ve been gearing up towards my whole life,” Olson said. “I feel like this is a necessary part of my college education. I learn so much every single day.”

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“A lot of undergraduates are unaware that many law schools, such as ours, are really looking for people of very diverse backgrounds.

We’re looking for artists and chemists and undergraduate engineering majors. We’re not looking for people who have the more traditional backgrounds,” explained Avi Soifer, Dean of the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law, after a Sept. 14 announcement that the law school would begin accepting the Graduate Record Examinations in lieu of the Law School Admission Test on a one-year trial basis.

Richardson Law joined Harvard, Georgetown, Arizona, and Northwestern as the fifth law

school in the country to change its application process in this way, stimulating discussion among the University’s community of pre-law students.

Ramzie Fathy ‘20, editor-inchief of the Princeton Law Review, praised the move to accept the GRE, arguing that the strategy these law schools are employing “is effective in creating a more open and available application process for applicants who come from an analytical background rather than the traditional humanities and social sciences [majors who] dominate the legal field right now.”

“I think more students will be willing to experiment with law,” Fathy added, explaining that the decision to accept the GRE could have far-reaching implications.

The more students are willing to

experiment with law, the more the University will see “a surge in student involvement with law-related activities such as the Princeton Law Review and the Princeton PreLaw Society,” he said.

While the step was regarded as a move in the right direction by Katja Stroke-Adolphe ‘20, the prelaw student maintained that law schools could be doing more to open their doors to a broader field of candidates.

“Until law schools begin placing less weight on GPA, or at least focus more on the specific classes and backgrounds of applicants, it will be difficult for many science and engineering [students] to move towards law, because the grades are generally lower,” asserted StrokeAdolphe. More importantly, for See GRE page 3

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Weisberg speaks on aviation and entrepreneurship in lecture

By Coco Chou staff writer

Jonathan Weisberg, former employee at the Boeing Company JetBlue Airways and founder of Weekend Jetsetters, shared his thoughts and advice on the aviation industry and travel efficiency in a talk on Tuesday, Sept. 26.

The audience consisted of a medium-sized group of undergraduate students, some of whom were members of the University’s Aviation Club. The event was carried out in a ca-

sual conversational style with the lecturer.

Weisberg earned his MBA at Emory-Riddle Aeronautical University. At the school, he conducted several studies related to fuel efficiency and cost reduction for aviation travels.

Weisberg started his experience at Boeing in a procurement position before moving to Defense. After a series of tough decisions, Weisberg left Boeing to pursue aviation/traveling entrepreneurship.

At the lecture, Weisberg described his two businesses,

Weekend Jetsetters and A2Z Travel Concierge. Weekend Jetsetters provides tips on customized and efficient ways of traveling, and A2Z, which already profits in the six figures, serves as the travel agency that executes customers’ plans.

At the talk, a student asked Weisberg about job details of the lesser-known Defense branch of Boeing. Weisberg talked about the more recent development of Boeing’s Defense, where Boeing engineers are designing products called See WEISBERG page 3

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Camden (left) and Koa on an adventure.

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most central location based on travel patterns of the students, according to information from focus groups.

Despite misconceptions that most college students do not get up early, there was an impressive turnout at the first breakfast of the year. Between 7:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m., the dining hall was roughly halffilled with students.

Most students in attendance had positive comments about the new breakfast hours.

“The reason I wake up early is because I am an international student and this is the only time I can talk to my family,” said Anna Dong ’20.

“If there is no breakfast until 10 [a.m.], it means that I do not have food for an extended period of time.”

“It is really convenient that I can grab food from the dining hall, rather than having to go out of my way,” Dong said. She would otherwise get food at Frist Gallery or Wawa,

which she notes is not as nutritional.

“It inspires me to get up earlier,” said Emily Hilliard ’20. “A lot of my roommates have stuff at 9 [a.m.], so they are very happy they can get breakfast before they get out.

One had makeup lab, another had a training session for a club, and one had to go to New York, so it was nice we could get breakfast together.”

Khanh Vu ’20 said she was glad there was a place to get hot food. Otherwise she would wait until 10 a.m. for breakfast.

Among the lunch crowd, there were also positive comments about the new hours.

William Sweeny ’20 said that the new hours were convenient, though he adds that he does not usually get up early.

As a part of the Committee’s review, there have also been other changes on campus. Along with weekend breakfast, upperclassmen on the Block 95 plan will now receive 250 points to spend at retail dining spaces on campus, residential college advisers now have 10 guest swipes as a part of their meal plan, and the meal exchange system has also moved from a paperbased system to an electronic system.

More information can be found on the Campus Dining website, which was recently updated as part of the Committee’s review to allow students to access pertinent information more easily.

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her, “the cost of law school is still the largest impediment for people who are not completely sold on law,” she said.

William S. Richardson School of Law’s decision to begin accepting the GRE was not motivated exclusively by its desire to cast a wider net in its recruitment efforts.

After all, as Dean Soifer explained, the Honolulu-based school was not as badly hit by the decline in applications to law schools as other law schools were.

“It wasn’t for us a matter of desperation or even something we felt we had to do,” said Soifer. “[We began to consider accepting the GRE because] we thought it was a good idea to do it, which is why we were in the initial group of pioneers and why we are moving forward.”

According to Soifer, the other two pioneers in testing the reliability of the GRE were the University of Arizona and Wake Forest University School of Law. Thus, in cooperation with Princeton-based Educational Testing Service, the company which owns and administers the GRE, Richardson Law created a process whereby current students and recent graduates would take the GRE and the scores they received would be compared to what they had received on the LSAT. This was done to see whether the GRE could be as good of a predictor of law school grades as the LSAT. “When the statisticians, the psychometricians got through, they said yes, the GRE would work for [Richardson Law just] as well,” Soifer explained.

Despite initial reluctance considering the American Bar Association’s slow response to the GRE trend amongst law schools, Richardson Law was able to move forward after receiving additional support from schools like Harvard, Georgetown, and Northwestern, which conducted studies of their own and reached similar conclusions.

The University’s Career Services has been watching the situation closely ever since it became clear that a growing number of schools will now be accepting the GRE. Evangeline Kubu, interim director of Career Services, emphasized that the career advising team provides individual attention to each student considering a law career.

Those with an interest in law school are directed to any member

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of the career advising team, she explained. Students who are already immersed in the application process for law school are directed to the University’s pre-law adviser, Karen Graziano, who helps students with important parts of the application such as the personal statement.

When asked what advice Career Services is currently giving its students in regards to the GRE, Kubu responded by saying that “very few law schools are taking the GRE so what we would encourage students to do is to take the LSAT because that is going to be the primary way law schools are assessing candidates.”

However, this is not the only resource Career Services offers for pre-law students.

According to Kubu, “It’s really important that students connect and have an opportunity to speak one on one with the direct admissions representatives from the schools they are interested in and we try to offer students that opportunity.” A recent example is yesterday’s J.D. admissions informational session at Career Services hosted by a Harvard law school representative.

The American Bar Association (ABA) is slated to take up the issue of law schools accepting the GRE in November 2017, according to a memo circulated by Barry Currier, the ABA’s Managing Director of Accreditation & Legal Education.

Despite little guidance from the ABA thus far, a Kaplan Test Prep Survey found that of the 128 law schools who participated, 25 percent said that accepting the GRE is an admissions policy they plan to implement.

Pre-law student Stroke-Adolphe also commented on the idea that the current presidential administration has had an effect on the number of students interested in a legal career.

“The current administration has definitely had an impact on my interest in law. Personally, I have had a passion for law for some time, but the current administration has made it clear to me that my life has to be one devoted to fighting injustice day by day,” she said.

“I imagine that many others have been awoken to the need to take action, and have seen the effectiveness lawyers can have in doing so,” explained Stroke-Adolphe.

For her, it would be truly fantastic “if accepting the GRE helps encourage those people to go to law school.”

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sonobuoy that cooperate with the U.S. Navy. Sonobuoys, he explained, are aviatory tools that can be dropped into the ocean to detect submarines.

Another student asked about what distinguishes Weisberg’s startups from existing companies.

Weisberg explained that his startups cannot beat many sites that compare flight rates, since those are not his sites’ specialties. “However, we do have hotel rates, and other cost cuts ... that are easier for us to provide because of our human resources,” he said. “We offer the personal concierge touch.”

Weisberg emphasized the personal and customized service A2Z provides that reduces much of the hassle and difficulties that occur with other travel agencies and procedures.

One student asked about the challenges and successes Weisberg endured during his business start-up process.

“Definitely more challenges than successes so far,” Weisberg laughed. “Weekend Jetsetters only started about a year ago.”

“The trouble I have right now is monetizing Weekend Jetsetters [rather than A2Z], for ex-

ample,” Weisberg said. He explained that Weekend Jetsetters started out with promotions as small as blogs and Facebook pages but is now growing at a decent pace. He noted that getting out the brand name has been a challenge for the company thus far.

Another student asked about the most cost-effective way to travel domestically. Weisberg mentioned Google Flights as having the best deals possible and emphasized its manipulability with respect to dates and destinations.

“It may be cheaper to fly to Singapore than to Miami during the Christmas period,” the president of the University’s Aviation Club, Idir Aitsahalia, stated.

The audience asked several more questions about Weisberg’s experience at Boeing and as an entrepreneur, as well as about traveling tips, aviation vehicles technology, travel agencies, airplane companies, and policies on air travels.

The public lecture, entitled “Travel and Aviation: A Discussion with Jonathan Weisberg of Weekend Jetsetters and Boeing,” was part of the Aviation Club’s lecture series. It took place at Frist 207, on Tuesday, Sept. 26, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

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applaud the Princeton students who engage in political discourse, those who hold and advocate for their convictions. Yet, when I attended the Political Activities Fair on Sept. 11, an apparent atmosphere of discordance struck me. The students at each table jockeyed for my name and email address. To me, they seemed to embody rigid attitudes towards politics — uncompromising positions not amenable to dialogue. Each table was disparate, seemingly incompatible with its neighbors. A peer remarked to me how the pro-life and pro-choice tables were situated on opposite sides of the room.

Was that just happenstance? Perhaps. Regardless, my first impression suggested that Princeton’s political climate is highly polarized. Has debate usurped dialogue, to the point where opposing groups do not even stand near each other? As someone who strives to hold moderate but consistent political views, I believe my peers could conceivably reach the same conclusion.

Do we wish to present such an image towards the incoming class, and indeed, to any visitor on Princeton’s beautiful campus?

Student activists sometimes perceive apathy among their peers, especially regarding difficult questions of identity, privilege, and power. In my

opinion, the best remedy to apathy is to encourage undecided or indifferent students to share their own moral beliefs and contribute their own experience to a campus-wide conversation. To that end, we cannot force our peers to choose between indifference and dogmatism. Their political evolution must come from within.

Someone who does not identify with any one party or platform is not necessarily uninterested or removed from events. In the 2017 Opening Exercises, President Eisgruber shared his rationale for not formally condemning President Trump’s remarks following the Charlottesville attack. “It is tempting to share my thoughts with you in detail,” he confided.

“It is, however, neither my role nor that of the University to prescribe how you should react to this controversy or others. It is rather my role and the role of the University to encourage you to think deeply about what these events mean.”

Eisgruber, while still condemning the appalling act of hatred in Charlottesville, did not advance his own political stance. Instead, he defended the student’s capacity to decide for him or herself — a central tenet of liberal arts education. As politically conscious students, we should follow his example.

Student activists know that moral values — convictions that run deeper than partisanship — are the bedrock of political af-

filiation. We identify as Democrats or Republicans, independents or activists, because we believe that our respective platforms will do the most good for the world.

A common goal to craft a freer, more just, and more equitable society guides our views on issues ranging from economic policy to social justice.

Our convictions about how the world ought to be, rather than our partisan allegiances, should guide us. We ought to help undecided or indifferent peers articulate their own senses of right versus wrong. A healthy plurality of voices would persist, but our disagreements would revolve around questions of ethics, rather than the highly divisive political debates of our day.

Such a process is deeply personal, for each of our conceptions of morality is unique, and to share them requires courage. To construct moral compasses that will orient us in the political wilderness, we must consider our own identities, as well as history. We must ask difficult questions about our debts to the past and persistent inequities. We must know our nation’s founding documents and the historical debate of Constitutional interpretation. Mutual respect, pluralism, and humility should be at the heart of our collective reckoning. Only then can we be sure that strong foundations bolster our politics.

If we accept the common view that the purpose of any

university, this one included, is to uncover truth, then we should not matriculate with labels such as “Democrat” or “Republican.” Our only distinction ought to be that we are students, united in the common quest for truth.

Last month, the James Madison Institute, a subsidiary of Princeton’s Politics Department, published a letter titled “Some Thoughts and Advice for Our Students and All Students,” which was signed by twenty-eight professors from Princeton, Harvard, and Yale. The letter urged students, “Think for yourself.” Some observers have discerned latent partisanship in this letter, but I invoke it only for its relevance. The professors argue that “the love of truth and the desire to attain it” obligates us to “learn and honestly consider” all arguments before adopting what we understand to be the most reasonable position.

Otherwise, ensconced in partisan redoubts, we risk glossing over the truth, simply because we will not entertain someone else’s perspective. We can only achieve truth in politics by weighing all legitimate positions and then deciding for ourselves, our own moral principles grounding our search for the right answer.

Jon Ort is a first-year from Highlands Ranch, Co. He can be reached at jaort@ princeton.edu.

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hen I walked onto the Princeton campus eight years ago, I wasn’t sure what to expect.

It didn’t feel right to step inside the perfect Gothic architecture in my flip flops and shorts. On my application, I promised to major in molecular biology, but after sitting behind a microscope for year years in high school, cells and molecules were the last thing on my mind. I knew I wanted to empower others in some way and decided that I could figure it out over the next four years.

To put my story in perspective, I was born in Ukraine and moved to Louisiana when I was nine. I then spent time in Missouri, Texas, and Ohio before going off to Princeton. Growing up in America, I constantly felt lucky compared to my friends in Ukraine. In the summers, as I was dissecting smelly frogs or learning to play baseball, my best friend from first grade in Ukraine would be packing boxes at a factory. It seemed strange that although he was smarter than me, had grown up in my building, and went to the same school as me, I was the one getting access to cool opportunities.

It felt unfair. And I couldn’t solve this unfairness by sitting in a lab all day.

Since graduating from Princeton, my team at Piper and I have created a product and a company to inspire the next generation of inventors and creators. Our first product is a computer kit that kids build and program themselves through the game of Minecraft. We have shipped tens of thousands of units worldwide, attracted over $10 million in

venture funding and gotten the endorsement of Steve Wozniak. Looking back, my time at Princeton helped me get to where I am today, but in looking back, three things in particular stand out as especially important.

Whether you want to start a company or make an impact in a different way, I think keeping these learnings in mind will help.

1. Find your Champion Freshman year, after missing the early Saturday bus to go to Six Flags with my friends, my consolation prize was to apply for a competitive journalism class.

Somehow I got in and the class became my favorite during my time at Princeton. Professor Evan Thomas was the former editor of Newsweek and had spent his entire life as a journalist and biographer. As a wellknown public figure, he was unexpectedly down-toearth and supportive of my amateur writing. For reasons still unknown to me, he was enthralled by stories of my childhood in Ukraine, my disappointing Saturday night forays into The Tiger Inn, and a long exposé of my roommate’s transition from pious Christian to enlightened atheist. The best part of the class was our weekly check-ins. We would talk about class and writing, but most importantly I would tell him about my crazy side projects. One was a website for Princeton students to debate with professors and then go to dinner with them to continue the discussion off line. Endorsements for this idea from my roommates didn’t feel very serious, and endorsements from my mom were nonexistent.

So when Evan Thomas said he would be the first professor to participate on the platform, it was a huge vote

of confidence that made me finally commit to building the site and launching it.

I realized later that it was launching this first project that gave me the confidence to pursue more ambitious plans with Piper. It is critical to have someone you respect cheering and rooting for you.

2. Learn the right lessons I met extraordinary people at Princeton. My best friend and freshman roommate Jared Griffin was a writer and poet. My roommate junior year, Shotaro (“Macky”) Makisumi, held the world record for solving the Rubik’s cube. A hallmate, Eddie Choi, published several textbooks on economics while a sophomore. Finally, a grad student friend and mentor, Dima Krotov, was the youngest person to be admitted to the Institute for Advanced Study for his postdoc work. And there are many other acquaintances who were Olympic athletes, actors, singers, and experts in their fields. At first I was intimidated by the talent oozing out of every person I met. Later I became incensed that I didn’t have acapella and tennis training from the age of five. It just didn’t seem fair.

Looking back, I realized that it’s easy to think of talented people as “the other.”

Yet all these friends were fundamentally no different from me. They had the same interests, fears, and wants, and what allowed them to be at the top of their fields was a deep interest in what they were doing. A contagious enthusiasm. They were so curious and obsessed with the idea they were pursuing that they ended up simply being the best. The lesson I learned was that in order to be the best, I should find the thing for which I had

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a deep enough interest that I would obsess over it and think about it endlessly.

Your focus shouldn’t be on how successful others are, but on finding the object of your obsession. And a continued deep interest will yield world class results.

3. Expand your mental horizons I traveled abroad three times during Princeton. On a Global Seminar in China I learned about why the economy accelerated so quickly in the last few decades and how manufacturing was driving China’s growth.

I also became intimately familiar with the people, customs, and traditions of our Chinese professors and peers. All this knowledge later gave us an advantage when we decided to source components and manufacture our products in China.

During a semester abroad in Oxford, I experienced the individualized tutorial system that allowed for a more tailored approach to learning. By spending less time in the classroom, I spent more time doing projects, and met Mihran Vardanyan, an astrophysicist who helped me build some early prototypes of the pedal-powered game controller. Mihran joined us at Piper two years ago and has been instrumental in optimizing our sales and marketing processes using his expertise with big data and machine learning.

On a summer trip to Ghana I created a game-based curriculum to teach kids about malaria prevention. I was testing whether a gamebased approach would allow the kids to better retain the information and remain engaged. Four weeks into the study I became deathly ill and had to be evacuated by plane from the rural village I was in. Recovering in

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an isolation ward in Paris made me realize that in order to have a more measurable impact, I would need to use technology. When I returned, I learned programming and this eventually led to the idea for Piper.

Looking back, these are the three ideas that helped shape my experience and thinking and eventually led me down the path I am on today. I believe that no matter your pursuit, having a supportive network, learning the right lessons to help you improve, and constantly improving your perspective and thinking on the situation will yield the best results.

Mark Pavlyukovskyy ’13 is the Founder of Piper Inc. He can be reached at mark@playpiper. com.

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Tigers have successful weekend with wins against Dartmouth, BU

By Grace Baylis staff writer

The Princeton field hockey team had a successful weekend on the road on Sept. 23 and 24, winning their first Ivy League opening game against Dartmouth and beating Boston University the day after. Playing two games back-to-back is not an easy task for any team, especially when compounded with the intense travel schedule that the Tigers have faced in the last 10 days, but this winning weekend now sees the Tigers sit at No. 16 In the NFHCA Coaches poll with an overall of 4-4.

Princeton dominated Dartmouth from the off, and just over 10 minutes into the game, first-year Clara Roth scored off of a loopy ball from senior and Ivy League Player of the Week Ryan McCarthy, which Roth poked through the goalkeeper. The two captains combined for the second goal. Captain McCarthy doubled the lead for Princeton, and a smart press by junior Captain Sophia Tornetta won the ball off the Dartmouth defender and passed it to McCarthy who calmly slipped it past the goalkeeper. The final goal of the half was from Junior Jane Donio-Enscoe, whose first goal of the season was one to remember. Donio-Enscoe received the ball on the

move to her backhand, then touched it to her forehand stick where she smacked it into the back of the cage.

At the half, although Princeton was three up and had dominated possession, the team seemed somewhat frustrated as they failed at converting a few great opportunities. However, in the second half the Tigers came out strong and, despite scoring less in this period, looked more composed and settled on the ball. The Tigers’ fourth goal was scored by first-year MaryKate Neff.

On the tail of Neff’s goal, Princeton then managed to convert one of the penalty corners they earned, and in the final few minutes of the game, senior Rachel Park inserted the ball to McCarthy at the top of the circle, who then swept it low to the Dartmouth goalkeeper’s righthand side.

The quick turnaround, in very hot conditions on Sunday, Sept. 24, made the team’s game against BU no easy task. Both teams managed to get shots off on cage in the first half, but solid goalkeeping by the BU keeper kept the Terriers in the game. Multiple balls were sent flying across the face of the goal by Princeton, one of them hitting the crossbar and another escaping past the post narrowly. The first half remained 0-0, with all

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Women’s field hockey had two wins against Dartmouth and BU this weekend.

to play for.

Going into the second half, Princeton looked more comfortable, earning several penalty corners, one of which sophomore Maddie Bacskai converted to give the Tigers the lead. Both teams fought hard for the entire game, but solid and disciplined defending from Princeton, along with a particularly notewor-

thy performance by Bacskai, sealed the Tigers’ victory.

According to the Tigers, this weekend is exactly what they needed going into their first home Ivy league game against Yale on Friday, Sept.

29.

“This weekend was great for us. It’s always super fun and exciting to start Ivy play. ,” Donio-Enscoe said.

“I think it just shows how after a few tough games we can really come back and have solid performances and get the results we want. We are definitely growing each game and connecting better, and I’m excited for our next game this Friday.”

The Tigers play at home against Yale on Friday at 6 p.m.

MEN’S GOLF

Men’s golf turns in strong performance at weekend cup

By Mike Gao staff writer

The Princeton men’s golf team continues its strong open to the season, netting a second place finish at the Quechee Collegiate Invitational hosted by Dartmouth in Vermont. It is the second tournament of the season for the Tigers, who just finished competing at Duke’s Rod Myers Invitational a week earlier.

Princeton finished a respectable 2017 campaign last year, netting third in the Ivy League Championships behind Harvard and Cornell. Senior Alex Dombrowski, who took second in the Ivy League tournament, and junior Michael Davis, the sixthplace finisher and a PING allNortheast regional honoree, anchored a strong Princeton spring team. While Princeton suffered attrition from senior graduation, including the formidable Dombrowski, they also welcomed a strong, four-person freshman class to the program: Sam Clayman, Jake Mayer, Jack Roberts, and Guy Waterhouse.

The Tigers opened their fall season with the Rod Myers Invitational hosted by Duke, where they faced a formidable field. Facing off against Duke, as well as three teams ranked in the top 20 (Vanderbilt, Oregon, and Wake Forest), the Tigers fought hard and finished twelfth, with sophomore Evan Quinn the top Tiger

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Men’s golf dominates weekend play.

performer. Last weekend, Princeton found itself on more equal footing in the Quechee tournament, facing off against a fourteen team field that included, among others, Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Brown. The Tigers were represented by three of the four incoming first-years on the team as well as Davis, Quinn, and sophomore Vinay Ramesh.

Princeton ran out to a strong

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start, ending Saturday ranked third behind Harvard and Cornell, with both Quinn and Clayman leading the field with par under one. An even stronger performance on Sunday, however, boosted the Tigers to second place in the tournament. Princeton’s rally was spurred again by the indomitable Quinn with par under two; Quinn finished the tournament tied for first. Fellow

sophomore Ramesh hit par under one and finished tied for third, while newcomer Jake Mayer tied for seventh by breaking even. As a team, the Tigers finished par under five and narrowly missed winning the tournament outright. They were stymied by Drexel’s Aaron Fricke, who tied with Quinn and helped allow the Dragons to leapfrog five places in the standings to a first place

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No. 16 The Princeton Women’s Field Hockey Team improved to No. 16 in the Penn Montco/NFHCA Coaches’ Poll today.

overall finish in the tournament.

The Tigers’ next tournament is another northeast regional competition, where they’ll duel six more Ivy League teams in a sixteen-team field for the MacDonald cup. Coming off a promising end to the Quechee tournament, all eyes are on Princeton to continue excelling in what looks to be a stalwart season.

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